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Namibia: Woman wins N$1 million after negligent birth care at Otjiwarongo hospital – News

Namibia: Woman wins N million after negligent birth care at Otjiwarongo hospital – News

Africa Links 24 with Werner Menges
Published on 2025-11-10 17:00:00

The government and minister of health and social services have been ordered to pay N$1 million to a woman who suffered serious injuries when she gave birth to her first child at Otjiwarongo State Hospital in February 2019.

Nurses who attended to the woman while she was in labour at the hospital were negligent, and their negligence caused the injuries the woman suffered when she gave birth, judge Boas Usiku found in a judgement delivered in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.

Usiku…

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